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by timmg 2y ago
Isn't this (kinda) true, in general? I work at Google. Many of the "official descriptions" of various levels include "size of team" as part of the description. I think, generally, anyone in a middle management pos
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by timmg 2y ago
https://blog.google/technology/ai/notebooklm-audio-overviews...
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by timmg 2y ago
You also might find a similar feature arriving in that product.. soon.
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by timmg 2y ago
Nothing. And if you work for a big tech company, you will get "patent bonuses" for doing so.
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by timmg 2y ago
> As an Aussie observer, I'm seeing more US influence in our region. Not an expert, but my guess is that there is (probably valid) concern about China. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" and all that.
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by timmg 2y ago
> There has been nothing in my life so disillusioning as working on a Web app for a company that is more or less required to play Google's game. Have you built any iOS apps?
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by timmg 2y ago
Aren’t many/most airline flights auto-landed? (Certainly autopiloted.) Does that bother you?
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by timmg 2y ago
Do you think global temperature is periodic or non-linear and chaotic?
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by timmg 2y ago
I think a lot of "smoothing" algorithms don't work at the ends of the data. Smoothing usually takes in past and future data. At the end of the graph there is no future data. (Maybe that's not the case for this type
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by timmg 2y ago
As I was reading the article just now it made me wonder: does Mars have a really diverse landscape -- that just happens to be all covered in layers of red dust? I have no idea. But I'd always thought it looked so homogeneous from the
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by timmg 2y ago
Does anyone think that there will be enough GPUs in data centers soon ? I honestly don't know. But it seems like there should be. Like I (kinda) get the scaling laws with LLMs. But at what point do we run out of training data? Is
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by timmg 2y ago
As a VisionPro owner, I was pretty surprised when I first used it that WebXR wasn't supported out of the box. It's an amazing piece of hardware. But they have really dropped the ball on software -- so far.
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by timmg 2y ago
I can't say I've ever had a desire to talk to an LLM about human-human interactions. But I do prefer Claude and have been a happy user for things I do want to talk to an LLM about (mostly learning things -- including coding).
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by timmg 2y ago
How hard will it be to scale up resolution/dpi with your tech? Hopefully you’ll be successful enough to make more devices. Just curious if there is a path to “retina” displays.
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by timmg 2y ago
It’s not just the MBAs that saw dollar signs. A lot of the engineers and researchers did, too.
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by timmg 2y ago
I don’t have any idea what goes on inside OAI. But I have this strange feeling that they were right to oust sama. They didn’t have the leverage to pull it off, though.
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by timmg 2y ago
Going on vacation has a “negative roi” if you only look at it from a financial perspective. That doesn’t mean that choosing to travel is always a bad idea.
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by timmg 2y ago
Interestingly, for my older sister, the answer is yes. For my younger sister, it is no. I agree with the point, though. It's more socially acceptable for a women to choose a lower paying job that she prefers.
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by timmg 2y ago
One thing that I think doesn't get enough attention in these types of discussions -- not just this article about ROI, but also earnings disparities between (e.g.) genders and other groups -- is that income isn't the only measure
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by timmg 2y ago
Any suggestions for those papers?
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by timmg 2y ago
Just wait until you buy an Apple Vision Pro... [It's got the same restrictions as an iPad, but costs more than a MacBookPro.]
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by timmg 3y ago
Isn't this kinda similar to what Brian Armstrong said around that time? (And yeah, he did get dragged for it.)
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by timmg 3y ago
> "I don't discriminate between people based on their viewpoints so you shouldn't discriminate against me for mine." It's strange you put quotes around that -- but that's not a quote from my comment. And I
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by timmg 3y ago
Yes. My point is that I don’t believe in being punitive toward people for expressing opinions different than mine. My original comment follows pretty logically from that belief. Which is why I asked you what you thought it meant to say, “p
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by timmg 3y ago
What do you think it means that "people should be allowed to express themselves"?
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by timmg 3y ago
> that people don't have the right to express themselves Actually, that's exactly what I do believe. That was the gist of my comment.
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by timmg 3y ago
Just personally: I don't get this behavior. Like I don't care about the politics of the employees of companies I buy from. I'm not sure how that could be important to me. Yes, Elon is very visible . But there are a lot of
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by timmg 3y ago
I, personally, grew up in a small, (lower-ish) middle-class mid-western town with below-average (I think!) schools. I did not get good grades (I just didn't care that much). But I got really good test scores. So I got into a pretty
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by timmg 3y ago
A quick Google search claims that Tesla’s “4680” battery has an energy density of 244 to 296 Wh/kg. I don’t know enough about the industry to know if these numbers are right. If they are, seems like BYD is pretty far behind Tesla. Any
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by timmg 3y ago
Has their site been hugged-to-death or is it my hotel wifi?

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